Page 5 - Mark Wrighton News Today

GW administrators made the decision to arm campus police officers in response to heightened gun violence in the country, said University President Mark Wrighton in an April 13 announcement.

Following a year of racist incidents in University classrooms, BSU demanded administrators reform tenure consideration and bias training in academic departments.

The announcement has raised concerns among students that the move will increase the rate of violent encounters at the hands of GWPD officers, especially toward Black and brown students.

We need a holistic approach to campus safety, not one born of desperation and resignation over mass shootings.

The Board of Trustees seems to have embraced the flawed strategy that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

'We don't believe it will make us safer if there have been no previous instances where a firearm would have been necessary,' said one naive student protester.

Dozens of George Washington University students took to the streets Monday to voice their opposition to the school's plan to arm some campus police officers...

The guidelines encourage faculty to clearly communicate their expectations for students’ use of GAI tools with students in writing.

Faculty senators said the decision to arm GW Police Department officers by the fall “reflects poorly on” GW's commitment to shared governance.

Interim George Washington University President Mark Wrighton announced in a letter on Thursday that the Board of Trustees has directed the university to equip specially trained GW Police Department officers with firearms.